Air National Guard layoffs likely at Stewart Airport

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. -- The state Division of Military and Naval Affairs has notified 71 members of the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Airport that they probably will be laid off at the end of March 2013.

The possible layoffs, referred to by the state as "involuntary separations," are because of the unit's 13 Vietnam War-era C-5 cargo jets being replaced by eight newer C-17s.